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Last night's character rolling session was good. We have a human rogue/cleric clerk-lawyer (Kendal Redfern), a half-elven druid falconer with an urban focus (Larissa), a human fighter/sorcerer with a merchant background (Arturo de la Fuego Castillos), and a human wilder/fighter (?). Most of the party are native to the city, so I have to get a good bit of information together between now and the next game for the players, and work out the experience awards I want to give for IC diaries, broadsheet articles, and the like.
Here's an interesting - if rather long - article on how the
Windows API is dead in the water, and the web is the New API.
It's interesting stuff, and I suspect Spolsky is right. Looking at my own
computer use, it used to be that I'd have PILES of applications open at
once. Two or three different browsers, email client, notepad, word
processor, PDF reader, graphics editor, news client, irc client, ssh
client, music player, and IMs.
All the different browsers are gone - I'm on Opera all the time now. And as
soon as gmail is usable on Opera, the email client (Eudora) will probably
be going away. I don't use notepad anymore - I make private entries in LJ.
The PDF reader opens up in the browser, and if the PDF is on the web, I can
read a HTML version via google. News is on the web, and my rss reader is
LJ, again. That leaves me with: browser, word processor, graphics, irc,
ssh, music and IM. It won't be too long before irc and IM are in one app -
if Trillian doesn't already do irc? And at the moment, there's an irc
client built into Opera. It won't be too long before word processing can be
done on the web, and I can't help wondering if google will go that way soon.
So it'll be browser, graphics,music, and the IM/IRC application. By the
looks of that, it won't be awfully long before there's nothing on the
machine but Opera, Winamp and some games. And how difficult is it to make
the music player into a web app?
Aside from all of that, I like this line:
The new API is HTML, and the new winners in the application development
marketplace will be the people who can make HTML sing.
Cos that there? That's me.
Windows API is dead in the water, and the web is the New API.
It's interesting stuff, and I suspect Spolsky is right. Looking at my own
computer use, it used to be that I'd have PILES of applications open at
once. Two or three different browsers, email client, notepad, word
processor, PDF reader, graphics editor, news client, irc client, ssh
client, music player, and IMs.
All the different browsers are gone - I'm on Opera all the time now. And as
soon as gmail is usable on Opera, the email client (Eudora) will probably
be going away. I don't use notepad anymore - I make private entries in LJ.
The PDF reader opens up in the browser, and if the PDF is on the web, I can
read a HTML version via google. News is on the web, and my rss reader is
LJ, again. That leaves me with: browser, word processor, graphics, irc,
ssh, music and IM. It won't be too long before irc and IM are in one app -
if Trillian doesn't already do irc? And at the moment, there's an irc
client built into Opera. It won't be too long before word processing can be
done on the web, and I can't help wondering if google will go that way soon.
So it'll be browser, graphics,music, and the IM/IRC application. By the
looks of that, it won't be awfully long before there's nothing on the
machine but Opera, Winamp and some games. And how difficult is it to make
the music player into a web app?
Aside from all of that, I like this line:
The new API is HTML, and the new winners in the application development
marketplace will be the people who can make HTML sing.
Cos that there? That's me.
.